It's now Monday. The race was Saturday. I've now talked to two people, boaters who are longtime friends and oft-times participants in the SSS who have heard about the park-up at Southampton this weekend. Both of them expressed the opinion that the SSS needs to address this issue or it's going to lose members. I know that the Board is aware of it, but spacing out DH and SH competitors just needs one big parking lot on the course to foul up every wisely-planned starting sequence.
Whatever gets done...is fine.
We can send DH and SH boats on different courses.
We can have SH and DH race on different days.
We can disallow DH one-design classes.
Whatever y'all decide. But this weekends parking lot at SH demonstrated that even the best planned starting sequences don't always work out.
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